<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 14-20. - Required.</div>
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               (a)
               
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               No person either as owner, agent or otherwise, shall furnish, operate, conduct, maintain,
               advertise or otherwise be engaged in or profess to be engaged in the business or service
               of emergency and nonemergency transportation of patients within the county, unless
               the person holds a valid permit for each ambulance used in such business or service
               issued by the state department of human resources, office of emergency medical services,
               and has been granted a franchise for the operation of such business or service by
               the county pursuant to this article.
               
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               (b)
               
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               No person shall drive an ambulance, attend to a patient in one or permit one to be
               operated when transporting a patient within the county, unless he holds a currently
               valid certificate as an ambulance attendant, emergency medical technician, EMT-Intermediate
               or EMT-Paramedic issued by the state department of human resources, office of emergency
               medical services.
               
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               (c)
               
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               No franchise shall be required for:
               
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               (1)
               
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               Any entity rendering assistance to a franchised ambulance service in the case of a
               major catastrophe, mutual aid or emergency with which the services franchised by the
               county are insufficient or unable to cope;
               
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               (2)
               
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               Any entity operated from a location or headquarters outside of the county in order
               to transport patients who are picked up beyond the county limits, to facilities located
               within the county, or to pick up patients within the county for transporting to locations
               outside the county; or
               
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               (3)
               
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               Ambulances owned and operated by an agency of the United States government.
               
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               (Ord. No. 39, Â§ II, 12-19-1994)
               
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